Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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It's really not that surprising that Johann bulked up. In our quest, each AP spent on self-improvement must compete with spending AP of our mission and on our research. But Johann Quest only does research when we ask him to, which we barely do, and as for his mission:
Johann has truly found peace - he's out of AP hell. What more can anyone ask for?
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- Leeds
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The DemiWolfSpider-taur Wraith Knight
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- Somewhere on Earth
Damnit, of course there's an interesting new option just as I put out my opinion. It being turned into a clone of Mathilde is very tempting, honestly. Though I don't know how it'll work as a codified spell. Maybe the method of binding it would end up making it look like the binder? That'd be an interesting little quirk of the spell, useful for some things, detrimental for others.
Chlof
Her Ladyship
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Would this be rideable?
If the codified spell looks like her permanently it'd be way better than just naming it after herself!
...and now theres rumors of Mathilde all over the Old World
It is very useful if you want a decoy while you get away from trouble... say by teleporting, something Ulgu can not only do, but do in concert with other spells
Holy Heck this would be amazing.
Actually, thinking about it, if we go the Dämmerlichtreiter route, we can name the spell something utterly normal while still maintaining form. Considering it's literally just her.
It was patient enough to stalk wizards, and to work out that the first place it wanted to hunt them was impossible to breach, and then to wait in ambush.
It's clearly capable of some reasonably sophisticated hunting tactics.
I also think that we may be able to exploit our Warrior of Fog trait to essentially put blinders on our bound apparition. They don't hunt mundanes so most of the time they're not a problem, and we just have our manifestation spell hide friendly wizards from them, but if an enemy shows up it makes the enemy look like a wizard.
Ulgu and Mathilde's traits probably make her better suited to fine control of what the Apparition perceives and so what it attacks.
Asheram
Not quite altogether
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- Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground
On the subject of the Seviroscope.
I'm genuinely split. It sounds (no pun intended) as if the audial version of it is closer to an ultrasonic imager without an interpreter, versus an Xray machine.
My major concern is that the ultrasonic imager brings out the possibility of misinterpretation, but Dawi are meticulous enough in their procedures that the possibility of mapping something in 3D is actually a boon to them.
I'm genuinely split. It sounds (no pun intended) as if the audial version of it is closer to an ultrasonic imager without an interpreter, versus an Xray machine.
My major concern is that the ultrasonic imager brings out the possibility of misinterpretation, but Dawi are meticulous enough in their procedures that the possibility of mapping something in 3D is actually a boon to them.
So the Red Rider needs six limbs, is roughly the size of a horse, and shouldn't be mistaken for a ghost, a demon, or a beastman. But then again, Egrimm did say people confuse Golden Hounds for Flesh Hounds, and the Lights have to intervene, so we do have some flexibility.
Maybe a draconic creature of some sort? It probably wouldn't be able to fly, but it fits the requirements. Otherwise, I'm fine with a basic knight shape, or a Dämmerlichtreiter.
Maybe a draconic creature of some sort? It probably wouldn't be able to fly, but it fits the requirements. Otherwise, I'm fine with a basic knight shape, or a Dämmerlichtreiter.
Probably not immediately, but it could plausibly be trained.
Hey, that really works with the spell name I favour - Dämmerlichtreiter's Summon. It works both as "the summon made by Dämmerlichtreiter" and as "the summon of Dämmerlichtreiter", while also enshrining one of Mathilde's titles in Grey Order spellbook.
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
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- Indonesia
Don't Grey Wizard have a Doppelganger spell? We could have 3 Matilde's bulldoze an enemy's rear with a 3-woman cav charge with our OP greatsword
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- New Brunswick, NJ
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- He/Him/His
I feel like it kind of limits its accessibility the rest of the Greys, though? I don't really see Melkoth teaching the new Battle Wizards of the Grey to summon copies of Mathilde, that doesn't seem like something the College would be excited to do.
Like, as a trick for Mathilde, it's great, but I was hoping to introduce Apparition-based magic to the College in general, not just have a cool trick. "A copy of a specific wizard" feels like a difficult thing to sell as an Ulgu-based combat summon.
There is a spell called that, but what it does is make the caster take on someone else's appearance.
I'm not really sure they'd care that much? Is it really a huge deal to most people if it resembles someone?
It should be noted that Mathilde on a horse still looks like a grey wizard on a horse, meaning that even if the shape does not change with the binder (which it might) they can just use illusion to look like Mathilde before pulling the switch. After all it is not like they look like generic knights either.
Having a decoy would be amazing in lots of circumstances.
The potential of being able to bind other Red Riders into enchanted items and have them look like Mathilde is also amazing.
Just think of the confusion you could cause in enemies if there were reports of Mathilde attacking an enemy of the Empire on support of someone down in Karak Eight Peaks, while also being seen thousands of miles away shortly afterwards. Thanks to the gyrocopter ot would be just plausible, but could be leveraged in a few ways.
We could also give a pocket Mathilde to Eike to use to bluff with in case of disaster on her Journey.
The potential of being able to bind other Red Riders into enchanted items and have them look like Mathilde is also amazing.
Just think of the confusion you could cause in enemies if there were reports of Mathilde attacking an enemy of the Empire on support of someone down in Karak Eight Peaks, while also being seen thousands of miles away shortly afterwards. Thanks to the gyrocopter ot would be just plausible, but could be leveraged in a few ways.
We could also give a pocket Mathilde to Eike to use to bluff with in case of disaster on her Journey.
minimap_op
plsnerf
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- Lower Lefthand Corner
If we make the rider a copy of Mathilde it's entirely plausible that future Grey Wizards will make there's a copy of themselves instead of Mathilde. While that loses some of the legacy factor it would mean that the spell will continue to function as a decoy for them.
Yes, but it'd be very small for a Dragon, wouldn't have a breath weapon, and it wouldn't be able to fly.